Cook Shared Service | Full-Time Position (Rotating/Weekends)
Job Metadata
Requisition ID:
2025-17250
Posting Date:
October 22, 2025
Location:
Bloomington, IN, United States
Category:
Travel / Aviation
Position Overview
Cook Shared Service seeks a highly qualified and experienced Corporate Pilot to manage executive travel operations. This essential role involves piloting company aircraft to facilitate the timely and safe transport of personnel, critical equipment, and supplies across various locations. The Pilot operates under all conditions—day, night, and instrument flight rules—while strictly adhering to all Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and stringent company regulations. The position mandates the exercise of extreme judgment and care to ensure the absolute safety of all passengers and company assets during flight operations under varying weather and ground conditions.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
The successful candidate performs comprehensive duties related to flight planning, execution, compliance, and passenger services. Responsibilities are conducted in the third person:
Flight Operations and Safety Compliance
Completes rigorous pre-flight inspections, including verification of aircraft airworthiness, confirming adequate quantities of all consumables (fuel, oil, anti-icing fluids), and ensuring all normal and emergency supplies and equipment are securely placed onboard, adhering to FAA and Company standards.
Conducts comprehensive studies of weather data in advance of all flights to determine flight advisability, select optimal routings and altitudes, and plan intermediate steps for maximized passenger comfort and safety.
Checks all relevant airport and airway data that may influence flight execution and completes and files required flight plans with appropriate FAA facilities.
Supervises the loading of passengers, baggage, and freight, ensuring that aircraft performance data and weight and balance calculations remain within certified operational limits.
Coordinates detailed flight planning with operational and scheduling personnel to provide passengers with accurate arrival and departure times, timely weather updates, and resolution of other logistical requirements.
Completes post-flight inspections of aircraft, reports all malfunctions and operating data to the maintenance section, and ensures the aircraft is properly serviced, stored, and protected while away from the home base.
Manages necessary logistical expenses away from base, including the issuance of purchase orders and signing for contracted fees and services.
Maintains thorough professional knowledge of all applicable FAA regulations, airport landing procedures, air traffic control procedures, communications frequencies, and established aviation techniques.
Adheres strictly to Company Standard Operating Procedures (S.O.P.’s) relative to the operation of company aircraft.
Completes and files all mandatory FAA records, reports, aircraft logs, and detailed flight reports, while also maintaining a personal flight log and comprehensive records.
Professionalism and Passenger Services
Acquaints passengers with the use of aircraft cabin equipment and emergency procedures, attends to their comfort during flight, and provides assistance with baggage and surface transportation upon arrival.
Maintains absolute passenger and business confidentiality regarding the utilization of company aircraft.
Maintains a thorough, current knowledge of aircraft flight operations and systems manuals, staying continually informed on current developments, techniques, and procedures across the aviation industry.
Performs other aviation-related, non-flying duties as required by management.
Minimum Qualifications and Requirements
Candidates must meet the following minimum requirements to be considered for this professional corporate pilot opportunity:
Required Experience and Certification
Total Flight Experience: A minimum of 3,000 hours total flight time is required.
Turbine Pilot-in-Command (PIC) Time: 1,000 hours of turbine PIC experience.
Jet Experience: 500 hours of jet flight time.
Recent Experience: 200 hours of flight time accumulated within the last 12 months.
Licenses: FAA Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate with a multi-engine endorsement is mandatory.
Medical Certification: Current 1st Class FAA Medical Certificate.
Documentation: Valid US Passport and FCC Restricted Radio Operator Certificate are required.
Education: Associates degree or equivalent professional training is required.
Operational Note: The pilot will be required to operate three different aircraft types within the fleet.
Safety Record: Candidates must possess a clean safety history, demonstrating no prior aviation incidents, accidents, or regulatory violations.
Preferred Qualifications
Previous professional corporate flying experience is strongly preferred.
Experience operating aircraft with a takeoff weight exceeding 12,500 lbs.
Specific flight experience is preferred in one or more of the following aircraft: Challenger 604, Gulfstream G100, and/or King Air 350i.